Full Stack Security Software Engineer Challenge @ WindBorne

fullstack-security-engineer-challenge.md

Full Stack Security Software Engineer Challenge @ WindBorne

Full Stack Security Software Engineer @ WindBorne

How to submit

Make a POST request to https://windmc.windbornesystems.com/career_applications.json with the following body:

{
  "career_application": {
    "name": "Your name",
    "email": "Your email",
    "role": "Full Stack Security Software Engineer",
    "resume_url": "A publicly accessible URL pointing to your resume",
    "submission_url": "A publicly accessible URL pointing to your written submission — see below",
    "portfolio_url": "Optional — a portfolio site, GitHub, or representative project",
    "notes": "Optional — anything you'd like to say about yourself"
  }
}

The role name must match exactly: Full Stack Security Software Engineer. Ensure the request returns a status code of 200 — anything else indicates rejection, and the response body will explain what's wrong.

The challenge

Answer the following two questions:

1. What's the most pain you've personally experienced running a 24/7 production system? We love hearing stories about reliability, your nastiest database, migration, or data consistency issue, etc. What broke, and what did you change afterward?

2. What's a "best practice" you disagree with after real-world experience?

More about the role

You can find more information about the role from our careers page

Hey! While trying to apply I noticed the role name Full Stack Security Software Engineer is not currently supported:
{"role":["must be one of Account Executive, Backend Engineer, Product Designer, Product Engineer, Software Engineering Intern Finance, Software Engineering Intern Product, Web Dev Intern, LLM Tooling Intern, Firmware Engineer, Firmware Intern, Web Design Intern, Linux Systems and Networks Engineer, Atlas Systems Designer, AI Intern, Content Lead, Finance, Fullstack Web Dev, Product Designer, Commercial Growth, Operations Chief of Staff, Operations Engineer, Forward Deployed ML Engineer, Applied Math Software Engineer, Embedded Electrical Engineer, Sensor Development Engineer, Project Manager, Global Operations Lead, Flight Control Operator, Head of Manufacturing, Sensors Intern, Senior Software Engineer - Operational Systems, Machine Learning Operations Engineer, Builder Fellowship, Federal Compliance Lead, Machine Learning Research Engineer, Forward Deployed Operator, Mission Operations Specialist"]}%

Hi Suhana,
The endpoint should be fixed, thanks for pointing it out!

Thanks for taking a look! It seems like there's a separate issue now, because I'm getting a 405 error when trying to POST anything to the endpoint. I'm running the same request that was giving me the role-not-supported error before.

I too am getting a 405 error when trying to POST.

Hello! Apologies we did an internal migration between when I fixed the endpoint and when you retried 😢 Please make the POST to https://windmc.windbornesystems.com/career_applications.json

@hauvalerie I was able to submit successfully. Thank you!

@hauvalerie I was also able to submit - thanks!